Experience

Zero Longevity Science

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Engineering

  • Apr 2022 - 1 year 9 months

  San Francisco Bay Area



Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Development Consultant

  • Jan 2021 - 3 years

  • Donating time to help a non-profit company: A Window Between Worlds • Documented production and staging systems (Ruby on Rails running on Digital Ocean) • Cleaning up security keys and system access from previous consulting companies • Performed security/system updates: Ruby, Rails, Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL • Added product enhancements and fixed performance issues (Ruby, HTML, CSS, SQL)



Scarf

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor

  • Mar 2021 - Jan 2023

  Advisor to the CTO



Human Interest

• United States
• Financial Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• VP of Engineering

  • Mar 2020 - Mar 2022

  San Francisco, California • Managed a team size of 70 (Engineering, IT, DevOps, InfoSec, Analytics, Data Engineering, Program Management), reported to the CTO and CEO • Performed over 270 interviews for Engineering and Product • Recruited/hired over 40 people: Engineers, Engineering Leadership, CISO • Partner closely with Product to align on team priorities, prioritize tech-debt backlog, monthly business report on SLAs and KPIs • Work with Engineering Leadership to optimize our hiring/on-boarding, team… Show more • Managed a team size of 70 (Engineering, IT, DevOps, InfoSec, Analytics, Data Engineering, Program Management), reported to the CTO and CEO • Performed over 270 interviews for Engineering and Product • Recruited/hired over 40 people: Engineers, Engineering Leadership, CISO • Partner closely with Product to align on team priorities, prioritize tech-debt backlog, monthly business report on SLAs and KPIs • Work with Engineering Leadership to optimize our hiring/on-boarding, team organization, manicure teams for efficiency, defining IC career progression and team culture • Work with Finance to set/monitor/adjust team budget and customer growth cost projections • Supported moving production cloud infrastructure from Heroku to AWS, making systems more monitorable, creating new services, led efforts for breaking up the monoliths into domain services • Worked with the Leadership team (Finance, Legal, Product) for Series D diligence and Board meetings • Completed company-wide SOC I Type I certification • Created first engineering hack-a-thon Show less



ServiceChannel

• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• VP Engineering

  • Mar 2018 - Jan 2020

  • Recruited and managed a team size of 30 (Engineers and Program Management), reported to the CTO and CEO • Helped build West Coast team in new East Bay headquarters • Managed outsourced team of 60 engineers • Transitioned all mobile development in-house to increase product quality/stability, and delivery of enhancements • Delivered key roadmap projects: Maps, Weather, Project Tracking, Asset Scanning, Refrigeration Tracking, increased language support, Badge Scanning, Payment… Show more • Recruited and managed a team size of 30 (Engineers and Program Management), reported to the CTO and CEO • Helped build West Coast team in new East Bay headquarters • Managed outsourced team of 60 engineers • Transitioned all mobile development in-house to increase product quality/stability, and delivery of enhancements • Delivered key roadmap projects: Maps, Weather, Project Tracking, Asset Scanning, Refrigeration Tracking, increased language support, Badge Scanning, Payment management, IoT integration • Defined/mapped out transition from micro-development style to a more agile/value- streams based development process • Supported moving infrastructure from AWS to Azure, reviewing/fixing security vulnerabilities reported by audit scans, site stability, modernizing technology stack and optimizing development processes/procedure for efficiency • Managed multi-location Engineering team (over 80 people in Pleasanton, NY, and Minsk) • Increased transparency/visibility of engineering team with weekly tracking of resource allocations, 20+ simultaneous projects, and product lifecycle pipeline • Supported site stability and performance issues • Created first engineering hack-a-thon Show less



Pandora

• Sudan
• Farming

• VP Engineering

  • Sep 2015 - Mar 2018

  Oakland, California Manage/lead the Device Engineering team (Services, Partnerships, Auto, Consumer Electronics) • Grew team to 31 (3 managers, 28 developers) • More than 51 million activations on consumer electronic devices • Listeners tuning into Pandora on voice-activated devices are up 141% year-over-year • Pandora was available on more than 2,000 consumer electronic devices • More than 35 million activations of Pandora through a native auto integration (27 major automotive brands and 8… Show more Manage/lead the Device Engineering team (Services, Partnerships, Auto, Consumer Electronics) • Grew team to 31 (3 managers, 28 developers) • More than 51 million activations on consumer electronic devices • Listeners tuning into Pandora on voice-activated devices are up 141% year-over-year • Pandora was available on more than 2,000 consumer electronic devices • More than 35 million activations of Pandora through a native auto integration (27 major automotive brands and 8 aftermarket manufacturers)

• Director, Device Engineering

  • Sep 2009 - Sep 2015

  Oakland, California Manage/lead the engineering efforts of Pandora into consumer electronic devices and auto. Auto • More than 10 million activations through a native/in-car auto integration • More than 160 vehicle models that include Pandora integrations have been made available for sale Consumer Electronics • More than 25 million activations • Available on more than 1,000 unique devices • Millions of listeners every month

• Manager of Device Engineering

  • May 2008 - Sep 2009

  • Developed 2nd gen API for device partners • Created the developer portal for Pandora's Device API • Developed the certification procedures and performed device certification for consumer electronic devices implementing Pandora • Worked with Business Development team to on-board CE partners • Managed, contributed and launched Pandora on flip phones and Windows Mobile • Created first engineering hack-a-thon

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Mar 2005 - Apr 2008

  • Worked with a team of 6 engineers to launch Pandora on the web in 2005 • Worked with key partners to develop an API for use by CE devices


Inovis, formerly QRS
• Staff Software Engineer

  • Oct 2002 - Feb 2005

Barra
• Sweden
• Strategic Management Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2002 - Oct 2002

Consilient
• United States
• Software Development
• Software Engineer

  • Feb 2001 - Dec 2001

Avolent
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Software Engineer

  • Dec 1999 - Feb 2001

Sybase
• Spain
• Software Development
• Staff Software Engineer

  • Jun 1998 - Dec 1999

CrossWorlds Software
• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• Senior Software Engineer

  • Mar 1998 - Jun 1998
• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 1994 - Mar 1998

John Muir Health
• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee
• Application Specialist

  • Nov 1992 - Dec 1993